We’ve mailed out our first postcard and I’m sure you want to know more about the German Tool Truck. Well, our online catalog is being built out right now to include over 50,000 items that cover all types of general and special automotive tools. Until the catalog is imported you can subscribe to the upper right and as important tools become available we post them here and forward that information to our subscribers. Please include yourself on this list of cutting edge tools for the professional technician.

If you have an interest in any of the products on the mailer or have other German auto tool needs, please call us and we will be glad to serve you.

The second tool we are highlighting is the kit for cleaning out the primary port and also the tiny ports in the secondary air system of a BMW N62 that are commonly clogged. Follow the procedure in the booklet by lowering the engine, mounting the jigs and drilling, cleaning, tapping & plugging the heads. Three hours to lower the engine, doing the job takes an hour and a half and reinstalling the engine takes another three and your done. All the ports are cleaned. No more secondary air codes. It would be a good suggestion to do the valve stem seals while the engine is out making that task much easier too. If you are looking for a tool kit to do valve stem seals in the car let us know because we have that tool too.

Leave the Heads On – Drop the Engine!

Here is the instruction booklet that comes with the tool kit. The Heads are off in the images below just for clarification purposes but this task is meant to be done with the heads on.

The last tool that we are highlighting in our flyer is a set of diagnostic instruments that are sensitive enough to measure crank case vacuum on late and new model vehicles. This tool kit comes complete in a case with two gauges of low and high ranges, a cap that connects to the valve cover on all Mercedes Benz, BMW, VW and Audi models, a pouch of universal fittings making it easy to connect to a vacuum line or dipstick tube for threaded caps like Mini Cooper and Porsche, and a spec sheet for BMW and MINI Cooper is also included for easy diagnosis of those models.

The procedure for diagnosing a bad oil separator is as easy as installing the tool on the valve cover, turning the engine on and waiting for the high idle to come down and then with the spec sheet you can diagnose the oil separator in a matter of seconds. The Old technique of trying to lift off the oil cap while the engine is running is no longer applicable because these newer cars operate normally at such high vacuum levels that the cap sticks under normal conditions making that test ineffective.